MY INTERESTS: Mainly FMA,MMA, Toastmasters and kicking it with all my friends. Monday nights I am setting up open-session cardio work-out where I am not charging my friends. Tuesday night is free day. Wednesday night is Arnis training with my fathers students,Thursday night, I go to my Fil-AM Toastmasters club #9493. It is non-profit speaking organization designed to help individuals develop their public speaking skills and develop leadership skills. We meet every Thursday night @ 7pm at IHOP in National City. Friday night I teach my own Arnis students. Saturday night hopefully go out & enjoy the night life with my friends and Sunday night, more Arnis training again.These 2 FMA video's under Tuhan Ray Dionaldo are pretty wicked man! The techniques are very similiar to what I teach but executed flawlessly, smoothly and I like to be this good someday!
I'D LIKE TO MEET: Friends who I used to know and like to make new friends as well. I am the kind of person who wants to be friends with everyone. When it comes to Filipino Martial Arts, I believe everyone who has the same interest is considered a brother or sister in FMA and I will treat them with respect; no matter what style. I really hate FMA politics and it has seperated us into clicks. Because politics or indifferences with our masters who has the better system, kept me from persuing the knowledge others have to offer. At the same time, I have to stay loyal & support my instructor's instructors.I also like to make friends who also have an interest in MMA or martial arts in general. I don't train in MMA but it is a new form of martial arts that cross-train in different systems of fighting. But there is one system MMA has not cross trained into and that is the weapon arts of traditional martial arts. We still need to pay our respect & keep the old traditional martial arts around the world alive.for more on me, check out FMA Database: Visit FMA Database Site !
MUSIC: Check out this video, friend of mine doing tinikiling and sinawali at the same time. Dang, if I had these skills, I would also be one bad mama jamma, actually papa jamma. The banging of the sticks goes in insinc with the the music:
MOVIES: Looking for a movie buddy to go with. There are several movies I still have not seen like: Pirates of the Carribean, The Condemned, Blades of Glory and that new Die Hard movies.
Currently I am watching 24 on Fox on Mondays, The Unit on CBS on Tuesdays and Lost on ABC on Wednesday nights. Other shows I currently watch: Scrubs, Deal or No Deal, Simpsons, According to Jim, Apprentice, CSI, Smalleville and KUSI.
BOOKS: "The Filipino Martial Arts" by Dan Inosanto where my father (Narrie Babao) was listed as one of the FMA instructors is the ONE BOOK I HIGHLY RECOMMEND for any serious FMA enthusiast because Inosanto really covers allot of similiarities among different FMA systems and is a MUST book to have. .."Filipino Martial Culture" by Mark Wiley, "The Secrets of Kalis Illustrisimo" by Topher Ricketts & Tony Diego illustrates GM Tatang Illustrisimo system, "Eskrima, Kali, Arnis" by Dionisio A Canete is a good resource book on Doce Pares forms & techniques, "The Fastest Olisi Fighter, The Life & Martial Arts of Grandmaster Cacoy de la Cuesta Canete" by Jun Canizares, "Eskrido: Eskrima, Jiu-jitsu and Judo Integrated" by Ciriaco Cacoy Canete because it shows how he combined other systems into what he called Eskrido (he is like what Bruce Lee done when he modified Wing Chun), .. "The Secrets of Giron Arnis Eskrima" by Tony Somera, .. "The Secrets of Cabales Serrada Eskrima" by Mark Wiley and "Classic Arnis: The Legacy of Placido Yambao" by Ray Galang. There is another book by Ray Galang called "Warrior Arts of the Philippines" that I recommend. Those are just in my collection of FMA books only.Also recommend video's as well:
HEROES:The founder of our Kali system (Floro Villabrile), GM Ben Largusa & Tuhan Mel LopezThe Canete Brothers, Saabvedra Brothers and others who formed the Doce Pares Club.Dan Inosanto who is a long time friend of my father, who really brought FMA to the mainstreamBJ Penn is one of the first non-brazilians to become a blackbelt in BJJ.